28 Bible Verses about sailing

In one hour so great riches is made desolate!" And every shipmaster and every one who sails to any port, And sailors, and all seafaring folk,

Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills.

"But now take courage. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship,

We sailed from thence, and arrived next day off Chios; and the day after we touched at Samos; and the following day we came to Mitylene.

So we set sail from Troas and ran a straight course to Samothrace. The next day we arrived in Neapolis,

By this time the season was far advanced, and sailing had become dangerous (for the Autumn Fast was past); so Paul began to warn them.

but said, as he took leave of them, "I will return again to you, if God will."

Three months passed before we set sail an Alexandrian ship which had wintered in the island. Its name was "The Twin Brothers."

Now it happened that one of these days he got into a boat, And him his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

He beheld the sky opened, and a vessel descending like an enormous sail let down to earth by four corners.

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they proceeded to hand over Paul and a few other prisoners to the custody of Julius, a centurion of the Imperial Regiment.

When at least we had torn ourselves away, and had set sail, we ran a straight course to Cos, and next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

"Sirs," he said to them, "I perceive that the voyage will be attended with injury and serious loss, not only to the cargo and to the ship, but also to our own lives."

and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackling overboard.

And when we had found a ship bound for Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

and coasting along with difficulty we reached a place called Fair Havens, not far from the town of Lasea.

And when the sailors were trying to flee from the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea under pretext of laying anchors from the bow,

and after sailing across the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra, in Lycia.

In answer he said: "In the evening you say, 'It will be fine weather, for the sky is red as fire';

"'Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you the lives of all who are sailing with you.'

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain on the ship, you cannot be saved."

When for a long time they had been without food, Paul stood among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and so have spared yourselves this injury and loss.

It was now the fourteenth night, and we were drifting through the Adriatic Sea when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near to some land.

Putting to sea from thence we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us;

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying to get to Jerusalem, if it were possible, by the day of Pentecost.

They cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, and unloosing at the same time the ropes that tied the rudders, they hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

The rest of us going before to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there; for so he had appointed, because he intended to go by land.

and as the harbor was ill adapted for winter quarters, the majority advised putting out to sea from thence, to see whether they could get to Phoenix and winter there, a harbor on the coast of Crete facing northeast and southeast.